I do not understand the hype around the Xenoblade games. Gave both 1 & 2 a try for about 5 hours each, only to get bored and never go back to either.
Flat characters, meh stories, boring open worlds.
Not too sure if this is controversial but I really wish Nintendo would compete in an "arms" race with Sony/Microsoft with power in their consoles. Fuck the handheld bullshit- just gives us an all powerful Nintendo console capable of 4k/120 and with 4k Blu Ray drive like the PS5/Series X has. With the Nintendo franchises plus major 3rd parties on board I'd seriously have no reason to own any other console but the Nintendo console!
I'd still love a really powerful Nintendo console again. I can only imagine a 4K Zelda or Mario 3D platformer with power behind it. A man can dream...I don't think this is controversial,
the issue with this is that the GameCube has shown that third party games are not guaranteed to come to the system just because it's easy to use and has Nintendo franchises on it.
Nintendo has had an issue with attracting third party publishers to their system ever since the N64
If such a Nintendo system would not be the #1 selling system, third party devs would still often ignore it, because Nintendo users have a reputation that they don't buy big third party games as much as other console users.
and one of the reasons Nintendo is #1 at the moment is the uniqueness of their system and the lowest price on the market. a powerhouse home system would break both of these selling points, making it a huge risk for Nintendo
I just hope you don't think mobile gaming is a good thing.Wii U AND Vita are awful devices that deserved to bomb and I am glad they did.
I'm also glad dedicated handheld's are dead.
What they need is properly placed bonfires. No game, I'm not going to run a few minutes just to get slaughtered by the Capra Demon within seconds again.Souls games need a difficulty level option.
Weeell I don't know about that.I do not understand the hype around the Xenoblade games.
Flat characters
That's not controversial. They did you a favor.I was actually banned from Reeeeset awhile back for trashing Outer Wilds and I still stand by it. Its a pretentiously obtuse stupid game with TERRIBLE controls. That latest expansion fixed nothing.
Absolutely true.The Last of Us is completely overrated and plays terribly.
Halo 2 is not fun, especially campaign wise.
Breath of the wild is among the top 5 worst Zelda games.
Gears 3 is among top 5 best shooters ever made.
FF7 wasn't good til the remake.
Every mainline Souls Game, including Bloodborne, would be better if From didn't make them.
I do have an opinion but not sure if this thread comes with console warring ban immunity, as it might sound like violating the sticky
I think the same about cinematic experiences games.Open world games are the wallmart of video games and are strictly quanitity over quality. These games trade excellent gameplay mechanics, responsiveness, level design and pacing for an open world where the only goal is to make it look "real and believable". These games constantly advertised how long they are but the only reason they are of this length is because the game is filled up with travel filler content.
These games are filled with boring fetch tasks that tell you to move from one location to the next simply by holding the control stick in the right direction (Or pressing the right WASD key if you're on PC) until you get to that location. There are no traversal challenges because the world wasn't designed with gameplay in mind: Only to make it look pretty.
I also firmly believe that open world games are cut an enormous amount of slack simply for being open world. Can you imagine having a normal, linear action game control the way a Rockstar games character does? The game would receive 2/10 all over the place. Oh, but it's in an open world game, so bad gameplay mechanics and controls are excused becase "ThE WoRlD FeEls So ReAl".
The popularity of open World gaming is the worst thing that happened to gaming.
- killzone 2 multiplayer is the best console mp ever with bf2:bc close second
I just hope you don't think mobile gaming is a good thing.